It's a Farm Update - 2.23.24

The Laying Chickens

We gave you an overall rundown on the laying chickens and the story leading up to where we are now. If you missed out on that update, you can catch it all HERE.

The laying hens have been moved and are back into the routine they’re used to – rotating around pasture and giving us nutrient dense eggs while simultaneously providing the soil with optimum fertilizer.

Maverick seems to be doing a great job with the ladies and we’ve had no signs so far of hawk attacks. Egg Production has really picked up this past week with the longer days, so make sure to grab a dozen on your next order!

The Cow Crew

This past week we were able to work the cows and sheep together. We weighed all the cows coming up to be processed soon and took records. We are currently working on adding a few more fences throughout the farm to break the pasture rotations up more and make life a bit easier on us when we move everyone to new paddocks.
We still have some great cuts left in stock and will be fully restocked in the coming weeks.

The Sheep

We castrated and weaned the male lambs and tagged all the new babies. The ewe lambs (females) will stay on the farm and will allow us to grow the flock. We are excited to see how our new ram will do with the flock this year. 

The Pigs
We spent Monday evening dividing the pig paddocks into smaller paddocks since there are only 6 pigs left from the ’23 season. This will allow the paddocks to rest more before our new batch of piglets for the ’24 season arrive. We also spread seed out to prompt quicker growth as pigs love to eat grass! We have so many great selections in stock with our pork including many great bundles!

Meat Chickens
 We got the mobile chicken shelter moved into place this week and will start doing small things (like cleaning and hanging feeders) to get it fully prepared for the chickens. We’ll receive our first batch of '24 IN JUST A FEW WEEKS. They’ll stay in the brooder a couple of weeks (until they grow some feathers) and then out to pasture they’ll go for the rest of their time. We anticipate a restock in early May. 

Honeybees 

The hives are getting busy with all the warm weather and plants/trees blooming. We were able to check one of the hives out a couple of weeks ago and they are healthy and FIESTY. We both encountered a few stings but thankfully the memory of them do not last too long. We plan on checking the rest of them out on Saturday to see how they faired through the winter. If we have a good honey flow this year, we'll be back in stock this fall. Our beehives are something we're slowly growing, and we just launched our honey line last fall so it's still pretty new. Thank you for being so supportive of us and selling us out as fast as you did! Beeswax candles and lotion are available now!